"discredited" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1995, Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition, page 127:",
          "text": "A reputedly valiant but discredited warrior is speared to death by killers in the service of another warrior, who is also reputedly valiant but even more discredited: it is a false denouement for a false tragedy .",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Scott Franz, Loon Moments, page 28:",
          "text": "I will tell you though, that as a scientific theory, \"Darwinism\" is probably THE most discredited theory ever put forth by ANY scientist at ANY time in the history of mankind; and why it is so desperately hung onto, and clung to by educators and scientists the way it is, well it's way beyond me.",
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          "ref": "2013, Simone Judith Buechler, Labor in a Globalizing City, page 68:",
          "text": "Antonia, a day-care center owner in Jardim Sudoeste, said, \"Honestly, not just for myself, but for many others, the politician is very discredited. I feel like I have no father or mother.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox:",
          "text": "Films perpetuate completely discredited historical theories about events (director Oliver Stone based his film JFK on a discredited report on the Kennedy assassination; see Section 13.6).",
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        "Considered invalid, unreliable, or untrustworthy."
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          "ref": "1995, Jean-Pierre Maquerlot, Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition, page 127:",
          "text": "A reputedly valiant but discredited warrior is speared to death by killers in the service of another warrior, who is also reputedly valiant but even more discredited: it is a false denouement for a false tragedy .",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Scott Franz, Loon Moments, page 28:",
          "text": "I will tell you though, that as a scientific theory, \"Darwinism\" is probably THE most discredited theory ever put forth by ANY scientist at ANY time in the history of mankind; and why it is so desperately hung onto, and clung to by educators and scientists the way it is, well it's way beyond me.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Simone Judith Buechler, Labor in a Globalizing City, page 68:",
          "text": "Antonia, a day-care center owner in Jardim Sudoeste, said, \"Honestly, not just for myself, but for many others, the politician is very discredited. I feel like I have no father or mother.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Robert C. Williams, The Historian's Toolbox:",
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